# List your top ten internet uses here

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398 "2001-05-24T19:38:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/21 "2001-05-26T05:18:54Z")

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1. ICQ and e-mail
2. News (courtesy my ISP start page)
3. MacFixit-- 'puter news, updates, and alerts.
4. The SDMB and a couple other MBs
5. Research/amusement
6. (during baseball season) ESPN’s GameCast
7. Online games
8. Shopping and banking
9. UL and DL stuff
10. Playing with my websites  
Hey **Kayeby** , have you tried Atomica? I’ve wasted many hours on that game…

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**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/22 "2001-05-26T10:29:14Z")

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1. ICQ
2. E-mail
3. SDMB
4. Movie/DVD news/information
5. [Atomfilms.com](http://Atomfilms.com)
6. Bass tabs/music/music information
7. Fun & amusement
8. Research (for writing and for school)
9. Art (the masters, new artists, art history, exhibits…)
10. Literature (reading…a lot of very different stuff)

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/23 "2001-05-26T12:50:19Z")

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1. E-mail
2. SDMB
3. Straight Dope
4. Research
5. Research
6. Research
7. Look for humourous sites
8. Library account
9. Banking  
10.General surfin’ for the heck of it.

I _really_ need to get out more …

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**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/24 "2001-05-27T04:12:42Z")

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News

Sports

E-mail

Professional Research

Information

Message Boards

ICQ

Entertainment

Porn?? Whazzat?? Links please?? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/25 "2001-05-27T09:16:01Z")

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1. Chat
2. Counterstrike
3. All other games
4. Research for school
5. Music
6. News
7. SWCCG Card Strategy
8. Dumb online tests
9. Email
10. General Surfing

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**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/26 "2001-05-27T13:28:31Z")

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[li]email[/li][li]SDMB[/li][li]chat[/li][li]my photo site[/li][li]SDMB[/li][li]weather[/li][li]online banking[/li][li]SDMB[/li][li]egreetings[/li][li]research[/li][/ul]

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**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/27 "2001-05-28T01:06:36Z")

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1. SDMB

2. E-mail

3. [Crimelibrary.com](http://Crimelibrary.com)

4. [Eonline.com](http://Eonline.com)

5. [IMDB.com](http://IMDB.com)

6. [Snopes.com](http://Snopes.com)

7. ICQ

8. [Nascar.com](http://Nascar.com) (for my hubby)

9. Unusal, weird, way-off-the-wall sites

10. Just surfin’ for the thrill of it.

I **love** the internet.

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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/list-your-top-ten-internet-uses-here/66398/28 "2001-05-28T01:27:55Z")

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In no particular order:

1. E-mail
2. SDMB
3. IMDB
4. Research for work
5. Games (Alchemy addict)
6. eBay
7. other message boards
8. Pointless surfing

Can’t think of anymore…

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